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Re: US Airstrikes Under Way in Syria

Originally Posted by annata

you summed it all up -just for Iraq it has to be moe the Shi'a militias, or even a Shi'a army - they did go on a limited offensive the other day. Fallujah,Tikrit, I think. That's a long way to go to dislodging ISIL -even if they take those towns.

The middle east has always been a place of shifting alliances. For that matter I guess that applies to the world as a whole. The only thing I know for sure is that I don't have an answer and the way it looks, neither does anyone else.

This Reform Party member thinks it is high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first and their political party further down the line. But for way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.

Re: US Airstrikes Under Way in Syria

Originally Posted by Perotista

The middle east has always been a place of shifting alliances. For that matter I guess that applies to the world as a whole. The only thing I know for sure is that I don't have an answer and the way it looks, neither does anyone else.

I mentioned this as it is prolly the biggest "Syrian moderate" group.
I thought it to be an informative link if you care to read.

Re: US Airstrikes Under Way in Syria[W:354]

Originally Posted by stonewall50

Then let the world take the risks. We have been for about 80 years.

The US has always been there, as has Australia when needed. The trouble is that most of the rest of the world can no longer defend themselves and the US cannot risk this cancer growing. This need to act, unfairly as it is, has been thrust upon them. And of course having a Community Organizer from Chicago in charge of something this big does not inspire confidence in anyone.

If Obama left the decisions up to the US military then I think there would be a coalition force much more quickly,